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Daily Sun journo Rafikul receives fellowship on clean energy transition reporting
He has also won a good number of local and international awards and fellowships
Daily Sun Report, Dhaka
Published: 22 Jun 2026, 02:54 PM
Daily Sun Journalist Rafikul Islam is receiving a certificate on the “Clean Energy Transition Reporting Fellowship-2026" at ERF’s auditorium in Dhaka on 22 June 2026. Photo: Daily Sun
A total of six journalists from different
newspapers, online portals, and television channels received the fellowship.
Media Resources Development Initiative (MRDI), Centre for Policy Dialogue
(CPD), and Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF) jointly organised the fellowship.
MRDI Executive Director Hasibur Rahman handed over
the certificates to the fellows at a ceremony held at the ERF’s auditorium in the
capital on Monday.
ERF President Doulot Akter Mala presided over the
event, which was moderated by its General Secretary Abul Kashem.
Other awardees of the fellowship included–FM Abdur
Rahman Masum of Dhaka Post, Salauddin Ahmed Bablu of SA TV, Reyad Hossain of
The Business Standard, Horipad Saha of Independent TV, and Hasan Arif of Jatiyo
Arthoniti.
The mentors of the fellows were Titu Datta, deputy
editor of The Business Standard, and Kuntal Roy, communications co-chair,
Climate Action against Disinformation (CAAD).
At the event, the speakers underscored the need for
promoting investigative journalism, improving skills, building capacity of
journalists’ organisations for sustainability in the country.
They also stressed the requirement for courageous and
unbiased journalism, ensuring accountability, hard work to gather accurate
information, and publishing in-depth reports for sake of the country’s economic
development and building a new Bangladesh which would be free from corruption
and discrimination.
Rafikul has won a good number of local and
international awards and fellowships including Bangladesh Agro Industry Media
Award, Hafezzi Humanitarian Award-2026, China Golden Silk Road Media
Award-2025, Plan International Bangladesh Media Award-2025, Nagad-DRU Best
Reporting Award-2025, SME Foundation-ERF Media Award-2025, Skincare Media
Fellowship-2024, BAJUS Media Award-2023, and DJFB Best Reporting Award-2021.
Rafikul completed his graduation and post-graduation from the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Jagannath University (JnU), Dhaka.
After completing an internship at Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) in 2014, he started to work at Dhaka Tribune (DT) and later joined the news agency UNB. He used to work at The Business Post until joining the Daily Sun.